out of turn

out of turn

English

Prepositional phrase

out of turn

1. When it is not one's turn.
   • 1960 December, “More L.T. progress with programme machines”, in Trains Illustrated, page 758:

     There are also controls to select out-of-turn working or acknowledge a warning that the programme-roll description of a train and train-describer description are at variance, [...].[...] The machines can automatically take account of late running of trains and, if it exceeds a pre-determined amount, can despatch a train out of turn.

Related terms

• talk out of turn

Translations

when it is not one's turn

Chinese: Mandarin: (please verify) 不按規定／不按规定 (bù àn guīdìng) Dutch: met voorrang, voor zijn beurt, (please verify) afzonderlijk (nl) Finnish: jonottamatta, jonon ohi French: avant son tour, par priorité, exceptionnellement (fr), hors tour, hors série, avec priorité, de faveur, anticipé (fr) German: außer der Reihe Hungarian: soron kívül Italian: fuori turno, fuori di turno Latin: extra ordinem Russian: вне очереди (vne očeredi), без очереди (bez očeredi) Slovene: mimo vrste, prednostno Spanish: fuera de turno

References

• “out of turn”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.